Connecticut western news., 1887-03-30
A fishing firm at Boothbay, Me, has se- cured sixty-thrss men in Nova Scotia to man its vcsse q.

cu, then rearrcsted for shooting at two Brooklyn policemen.
 -Janitor Titus the saver of Tillie Smith, at HacAettstown, N. J., is not to be executed His sentence has been commuted to imprison- ment for life.
 John E. Gill and John Foster, Knights of Labor, were arrested in New York. charged with conspiracy connected with 8 strike in the shoe factory of Hsnnan X Sons.
 A new heory was advanced in the inves- tigation of the Forest Hills disaster and this was that a broken rail causel the mischief. This theory was advanced by Master Mechanic of the Bos on and Providence R. R.
 At tho Mineral Springs mines of the Ie- high Valley Coal Company Andrew Mart. aged 40, miner, was caught under a fall of tor rock and coal and frishtfully cru he'd. Nearly every bone in hls body was broken. He died soon afterward.
 The New York Assembly by a vote of S4 to S7 passed Senator Daly's bill appropriating So5oOoO to improve the Erie and Oswe 70 Canal locks before the opening of navigation next year, so as to reduce grain freight be- tween Lake Erie and tidewater from five cents & bushe. to two cents.
 A number of ocean steamers are overdue, and fears of their loss are expressed.
 A band of eight boys, who were playing burglar, has been broken up in Philadelphia
 The Canadian Government has remitted $500 of the fine imposed upon the Gloucester schooner Daislcv for landing flour whil, pass ing through the Strait of Canso.
 The Premier, in the Nova Scotia Legisla- ture on Friday, admitted that prohibition would soon be an accomplished fact in Can ada, and advised hquor-dealers to prepare for the inevitable.
 It is reported from Nc wfoundland that the coast around St. Johns is blocked with ice. The steamer Halifax with American and Cana llan hos lot ol - ,1, three days awaiting chance to run the ice blockade.
 At a Methodist Episcopal donation party held in a SchoolhouSc at Stillvi!le, near Utica. x. l.. the floor gave way and ten or fifteen persons were severe ' injured. Icing bruised, burned and scaldcd, and receiving fractures of the limbs.
 A train on the Norfolk and Western Rail- road went through Big Otter River Bridge. on Friday. It is stated that eight persons were killed, but particulars cannot be obtainei. A wrecking train with physicians has gone to the scene of the disaster.
 There is no long any doubt that Robert $. Boyd. of Bos on, special age of the Amer ican Bell Telephone Company, lost his life in the Richmond Hotel fire. The room-book, or ledger, of the Richmond Hotel has been found and BoydS name Is in 1t.
 The owner of the Esperanza estate. in Cuba, who was recently kidnapped, has been ransomed. The young son of Senor Jose Gas nllo, who was taken by Mataga's band from his home in the village of Colon, has been re- stored to his pa ~ents. The sum paid for his release was Sl 800 gold. Ten thousand dollars was at first demanded.
 In Newark Ohio, Jacob Bread died from the effects of scalding received at the hands of his wife during quarrel. The couple had becoming exasperated by some abuse by her husband, Mrs. Bread threw a pan of boiling water in his face. She kept everybody out of the house after the scalaing, but since his death she has become maniac.
 WASHINGTON.
 The President appointed Oscar S. Strauss, an importer of chin a, of New York, to be min ister to Turkey.
 The Civil Service Commission has placed the post-otfces at Richmo q and Denver under Civil Service rules.
 The findings of the court-martial in the case of Major Frederick W. Benteen, 9th Cav airy, recommending h,s dismissal. have been returned to the court by the Judge Advocate General on account of irregularity.
 Col Lamont, in conversation Tuesday in regard to the Presidents health, said that the fears expressed by Dr. Sewers are not shared by the Presidents family and his intimate friends. The President, Col. Lamont said, was to all appearances in perfect health.
 A bill will be submitted to the next Con sress providing for the purchase of the bat le- fields of Lookout Mountain, Mocassin Bend, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge for the prr- pose of establishing and maintaining nation- al park tn re, preserving as far as possible the outlines of the battle-fields, and erecting suit able monuments to the memory of the fallen soldiers.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 A explosion by which seventy miners were killed occurred in the Bulli colliery, at Sidney. N. S. w.
 -Advices from Suakim state that the Brit ish war ship Aibacore, has captured two sla- vers, with a cargo of sixty slaves each, going to Jeddah.
 -Advices from Cabul say that the Ameer has sent printed circulars to the tribes of ko- histan urging them to join him in holy war against Russia.
 The Republiq,se Franraise says that the experiments made by the French Gov,rnment WI Il the ''self eering torpedoes" at Toulon have resulted in failure.
 It is reported that six persons were cap tured in St. Petersburg on Sunday in con- nection with the recent plot to assassinate the Car and were hanged on Monday.
 The police of St. Petersburg, have dis covered stores of dynamite and apparatus for the manufacture of bomb in several villas at Pargslovo, summer resort ill the suburbs of the Russ'an Capital.
 Foreign promoters of a project to build 8 railway joining Taku to Tentsin, in China, are much chagrined because Ii Hung Chang has sanctioned proposal that Chinese labor must be used in the construction of the road.
 Sir James Ferguson, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the English House of Commons said he hoped to lay on the table United States Government relating to the fisheries dispute.
 -Eighty-five men were ent omhed by the ex plosion in the Bulli colliery, Wales. The ac cident occurred ill a tunnel a mile and half from the mouth of the pit. Seven bodies have been recovered The tunnel is blocked by the debris caused by the explosion.
 The evidence given in the case of the + anarchists on trial in Vienna, charged with be- ing implicated in conspiracy to burn the ty Is causing great sensation. It is becoming evident that only the failure of the plot saved the city from almost total destruction
 A despatch from Massowah says that the Italians who were held as prisons rs by Rasa- loula had arrived there from Asmara with the exception of Surgeon-Major Savoirux, who had been detained to act as Rasaloula's physician. Communication between Massowah and the interior was cut off.
 The steamer Belgic, which arrived iron China and Japar. brought news of tragedy at HiSia Shib, China, twenty miles northeast of Hongebow. Over 500 tramps appeared il the village, and the inhabitants, greatly ir ritated by their presence, inveigled them in to the temple and in the night set fire to tl' editice, Only forty of the tramps escaped iron the blazing building, the remainder being burned to death
 AVENGED HIS SISTERS WRONG The Young Man Who Killed Dr. Randall Will Not Be Arrested